Craig H. Blakely, Ph.D., M.P.H., dean of the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences, has been appointed to the Defense Health Board, which advises the Secretary of Defense on matters relating to health for retired and active members of the military and their families.

UofL faculty expertise led to the school’s selection as Kentucky’s headquarters - known as a Local Performance Site (LPS) - within the Region IV Public Health Training Center (PHTC) based at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.

The Louisville Metro Board of Health recently issued a report on implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the city. The report was co-authored by Board of Health member and University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences Dean Craig Blakely, PhD, MPH, and doctoral student Susan Buchino, MS, OTR/L.